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Combined with WordPress's permissive REST CORS behavior — which echoes the request `Origin` and sets `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true` — this allows an unauthenticated attacker to read REST API GET responses as a logged-in victim, exposing role-restricted and private post/page content, victim user profile data via `/wp-json/wp/v2/users/me`, and comments the victim is authorized to see. This requires the attacker to lure a logged-in user into visiting an attacker-controlled page that issues credentialed cross-origin `fetch` requests against the target site's REST API; no nonce or further victim interaction beyond the page visit is needed.","score":6.5,"severity":"medium","published":"2026-10-30T05:35:50.445Z","modified":"2026-10-30T18:09:01.200Z","withdrawn":false,"knownExploited":false,"affected":[],"products":[{"vendor":"cyberlord92","name":"Page and Post Restriction","platforms":[],"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"1.6.1","versionType":"semver"}],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","cpes":[],"source":"Wordfence","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118194"}],"remediation":[],"references":["https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2785a4e1-64f3-4b20-b0b3-7030bd88438c?source=cve","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-and-post-restriction/tags/1.6.0/page-and-post-restriction.php#L79","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-and-post-restriction/tags/1.6.0/page-and-post-restriction.php#L54","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-and-post-restriction/tags/1.6.0/page-and-post-restriction.php#L78","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-and-post-restriction?rev=3771992","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3771992/page-and-post-restriction/trunk/page-and-post-restriction.php"],"sources":[{"name":"CVE","id":"CVE-2026-118194","modified":"2026-10-30T18:09:01.200Z","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118194"}],"assessments":[{"source":"Wordfence","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":6.5}],"sourceAffected":[],"observedAt":"2026-10-30T19:12:50.373Z","kev":{"status":"not-listed","checkedAt":"2026-10-31T06:55:30.992Z"},"coverage":[{"source":"NVD","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.426Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.426Z"},{"source":"GHSA","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.655Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.655Z"},{"source":"EUVD","status":"refresh-failed","attemptedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.440Z"},{"source":"EPSS","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.508Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-30T05:50:33.508Z"}],"evidence":[],"aiSummary":{"text":"The Page and Post Restriction WordPress plugin, versions up to 1.6.1, has an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker can read REST API responses as a logged-in user by luring them to an attacker-controlled page. This exposes private content and user data.","model":"@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast","generatedAt":"2026-10-30T08:39:54.700Z","sources":[{"name":"CVE","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118194"}]}}